2019 Esri Developer Summit Experience
Posted 3 years ago
This year I had the opportunity to attend the 2019 Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs, California with a fellow SFU ECCE Student Associate, Chris Yee. Attending a conference in the desert was a welcome change of scenery in contrast to the snow and cold weather we have been experiencing in Vancouver. This Developer Summit […]
The Importance of Scale (A brief introduction)
Posted 4 years ago
When we look at life from the viewpoint of an ant, and then compare it to that of a soaring bald eagle, we come to the realization that they are quite markedly different from one another. What may seem like a mountain for an ant to climb is just a rock settling in between the […]
mapit.space @ Esri User Conference 2018
Posted 4 years ago
This is another guest post from Alysha van Duynhoven, who appeared recently in our blog describing her team’s experience in the App Challenge at SFU. As winners of the challenge her team (including Chris Yee and ECCE associate Anthony Lee) won a trip to the Esri User Conference in San Diego earlier this month. The […]
ECCE App Challenge 2018 – goElectric by mapit.space
Posted 4 years ago
This is a guest post from Alysha van Duynhoven, a member of this year’s winning App Challenge team mapit.space, giving us insight into their overall strategy and experience. You can see more detail about her team, including Anthony Lee and Chris Yee, along with a video demonstration and a live demo of their application from […]
Meet the winners of the ECCE App Challenge 2018
Posted 4 years ago
The ECCE App Challenge for 2018 has been another great success. This year, we had a total of 21 teams participate from ECCE schools across Canada (a new record for the annual competition). The teams participating in the challenge this year were all asked to create apps that addressed any problem of their choosing using […]
Carleton to SFU: Connecting through education
Posted 5 years ago
I am delighted to be someone who previously wore the ECCE label proudly as a Carleton undergraduate student, and am just as excited to be carrying that honor onwards to Simon Fraser University as a master’s student. My background is a little abstract in comparison to the majority of the students that are a part […]
Linking App-Building and Cartography – Experiences from the 2016 Esri Canada App Challenge
Posted 5 years ago
Hi Everyone, Congratulations to the winners and participants of the 2017 Esri Canada App Challenge! With the recent conclusion of the 2017 Esri Canada App Challenge, I’ve decided to write about my overall positive experiences with the 2016 Esri Canada App Challenge. Some of the students in my multimedia cartography (GEOG 351) class participated in […]
GIS-based Models for Forest Insect Infestation Eradication
Posted 5 years ago
This spotlight article is from Taylor Anderson, currently in her second year as an ECCE student associate at SFU. Recently, she participated as a member of the SFU team in the ECCE App Challenge 2017 to produce a custom solution using citizen-sourced data to help identify places areas in need of sustainable transportation infrastructure. In […]
Useful Tools for Making Maps with ArcGIS
Posted 6 years ago
As a student associate with the ECCE at SFU, I was allowed to take two free ESRI Canada instructor-led courses. One of these courses was Designing Maps with ArcGIS. I personally think that I have a pretty solid foundation but ArcGIS but I enrolled in this class with the hope that it would teach me […]
SFU ECCE @ the Vancouver UC
Posted 6 years ago
On November 2, the Esri Canada User Conference was held in Vancouver, BC. During the plenary Dr. Brent Hall, Director of Education and Research at Esri Canada, presented an overview of the progress that we have made over recent years in supporting the adoption and use of GIS technology in education institutions across Canada (e.g., […]
